David Simon says networks have become reluctant to produce his style of dramas and he questioned whether HBO remains the home for his work, joking about a "David Simon Harry Potter" miniseries set in a bureaucratic, dysfunctional Hogwarts. He listed multiple projects in development, including a long-gestating punk musical built around The Pogues' songs. Simon previously integrated The Pogues into The Wire and cast Spider Stacy on Treme. He wrote in 2013 that the musical would utilize The Pogues' musical canon rather than depict the band directly, after Phil Chevron approached him and he met director Garry Hynes.
'You know, I'm not sure you guys are the home for what I do any more. You're not going to take the David Simon Harry Potter miniseries about a bureaucratic Hogwarts that can't function.'
I've been a fan of The Pogues and their music since the late 1980s. After we had used some of their songs in The Wire, I had a chance to meet the bandmembers through George Pelecanos, who had been invited to one of their concerts in Washington, D.C. Shortly thereafter, during some time in London, I was approached by Phil Chevron about the possibility of writing a musical that would utilize the band's discography. Interested, I was then introduced to the estimable director Garry Hynes of I
a punk musical using the music of The Pogues.
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